mariahopkins-18946
A mediocre effort at best Insurgent is hampered by a boring plot and even the action sequences fail to get a rise out of you. This makes Divergent look like Citizen kane. Should be avoided to teach Hollywood a lesson: Audiences are no fool.
derbo73
An uninspired and lame copy of much better books and films. Rather bad actors and lots of boring dialogues and "inner conflict" nonsense that feels constructed and totally off. Unbelievable dystopia full of logic holes and unexplainable magic devices.Nothing you will remember or wish to see continued.
matrixpolaris
The first one was okay. It's a good film if you have 2 hours to kill, but if you want a quality film, then it's not for you. And the same counts for this one.Let's start with the positives. While the action in the first one was just a little meh, the action is amped up in this one, and the result is excellent. The train fight was stunning, the small duel between Tris and Peter is great, and so are the others. The acting is sorta good as well. Shailene gives a solid performance, and Miles Teller is also great. The scale and scope of this film is much larger than its predecessor, and the effects are much better, and less noticeable, and it's altogether a better film.But it's also got some negatives. Why are they here? Why do the factions work? What if you're both kind and selfless, and does that make you Divergent? What happened? All these questions were left unanswered in the first film, and still weren't answered in this one. The same thing happened with the Maze Runner, and seemingly with all YA films. While that does leave to theorize what happens next, it's sort of annoying not knowing what happened. Also, why trust Peter? He beat you up, and tried to kill you in the first film, he betrayed you to Jeanine TWICE, and you still trust him. Tris, you are an idiot. The plot is pretty bad, and the video recording is taken straight out of The Maze Runner. Both of these films are generic, and are almost indistinguishable from The Hunger Games, Maze Runner, and even Harry Potter. When will they come up with something original?This film is fun, no doubt about it, but it's not really worth it. Watch the Hunger Games instead.
mmarianne
I remember when I first read the books. The first one was interesting from the start, with the whole story-line of the fractions with all its diversity, and yet so single-minded. I liked all about the start of Triss first meeting with the dauntless, the trains and the jumping first and the weird friendships that formed under huge pressure. So far, the first movie, Divergent, was following suit and I liked how the creators of the movie kept to the story of the book. However, I think I lost interest in the middle of the movie, with all that fighting and screaming and it just kept going on...and on.... So I think I just forgot to watch the sequel, this one, Insurgent. Surprise surprise, I liked it a whole lot more than I did the first one! Apart from the fighting, where I went to the loo, or in to the kitchen to get something, I enjoyed. The story is so together in this one. It's all about Triss finally getting to open the box. Simple. And then she opens it. And et voila - they all find out that the divergent are the important ones, that the whole thing has been an experiment from the world beyond. Etc. Yeah. It held together well, and I enjoyed it. Not too much. Not too little. Just enough, you know? For wanting to see the sequel of this one. Marianne
AD
